Max Verstappen “ While waiting to jump '' on Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris in F1 Title Fight, explains Ted Kravitz | F1 News

Max Verstappen knows that he is back in the fight for the title of Formula 1 and is waiting to “jump like the lion he is” on Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, according to Ted Kravitz of Sky Sports F1.

Verstappen won his second successive victory with a dominant exhibition in Azerbaijan on Sunday, while the leader of the pilot championship, Piastri, crashed and his teammate from McLaren Norris finished only seventh.

The result saw Verstappen, which hunts a fifth title of successive pilot, nearly 69 points of Piastri with seven laps of the remaining season, while it is now at only 44 points of Norris.

On the latest episode of Sky Sports' The F1 showKravitz said he was thinking that Verstappen was able to make a plan to put pressure on the McLaren pair, both who are looking for a crown of young girl drivers.

“He knows he's back in it because he has the car, it's the thing,” said Kravitz.

“If he had had the car from the start, his plan and the plan of Red Bull were always to stay at the touch of the two McLarens, then wait precisely this moment of the season when the pressure is lit, crazy races, unusual pieces like Baku, like Singapore, like Qatar, like Austin, like Las Vegas.

“And then jump like the lion he is on the two kittens of the championship, which were not in fact in the running for a world championship at the end of a season, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.

“And it was only the car that dissuaded him, or disappointing for Max, that he was not going to be able to do it.

“Now, he has the car again, then I think he can come back to plan a for the season, which was:” Let's keep inside the touching distance of McLaren, then wait for that to be crew at the end of the season, then we will show them what the pressure means going at the end of the year. “”

Chadwick: Max has a spring again in his step

Sky Sports F1 The expert and the former W series champion Jamie Chadwick believes that Verstappen has a “spring in her approach” after her high series of results.

Verstappen had been on a sequence of four races without podium before the summer break, with a particularly poor red Bull performance during the last of these events in Hungary, which has doubts about whether Dutch would be able to compete for victories in all the rest of the season.

However, he won a solid second place in his home race in the Netherlands before winning the pole and the victory in Italy and Azerbaijan.

Chadwick said: “Max was phenomenal. I think it was obviously there that he thrives in these delicate conditions, but they have always found something with the car, which is great because it gave him a car that he can compete in front.

“But even when it is difficult, it always seems to excel. And that is what makes him, in my opinion, and the current harvest, the biggest that we have. It is incredible to see.

“It is interesting now, the fight for the title, because it is a lot of points. It is 69 points, I think that there is a little less than 200, so it is a big and big demand, but I would never govern it.

“And also, he did not exclude himself. He somehow smiled on the weekend and said:” It's a lot of points, but never says. “”

“And I like it. I think he has this kind of spring again in his approach. I think there was an lull in his atmosphere and his atmosphere earlier in the year and now it is again for play. He has this kind of spring in his step and he wants to attack it.”

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